Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Policy Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
121 (2003) 17-38
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 21st century
Abstract:
In 2002, there was an upsurge of anti-Jewish violence in France. In Germany, the number of reported antisemitic incidents (although usually of symbolic character) is even greater than in France. The incidents in Germany form part of a long-term trend dating back to German reunification. The Western press tends to downplay violent antisemitism in Germany and to attribute antisemitic acts in France to Muslim immigrants, thus depicting antisemitism as a phenomenon that is not really European and that may be forgiven in light of Israel's treatment of Muslims in the Middle East. States that the European political (especially Left) and intellectual elites bear a responsibility for the rise in antisemitism, and that violence committed by Muslims is instigated by the mass media. Antisemitic motifs are increasingly prevalent in the European mainstream. They are often combined with anti-American and anti-globalization motifs. Contends that the growing ethnicization and regionalization of Europe, which arouses ethnicist thinking with its focus on preservation of cultural specificity and covert hostility to the "allochtons", is a graver danger for the Jews.
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